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Last Week on My Mac: Moving with the times and the data

JSON is a popular standard for data obtained from internet sources. How well is it supported by spreadsheets? And two major upgrades: Tinderbox 7 and Dash 4.

February 26, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Brief Candles: Frédéric Bazille – figure in a landscape, 1

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He was famously and tragically killed in 1870, but how well do you know his paintings?

February 25, 2017 General, Painting

The Time Bomb Ticking in Sierra: Grand Central Dispatch is broken

This bug disrupts Time Machine backups and all the dozens of activities which macOS manages. It may make Sierra unsuitable for use in servers.

February 25, 2017 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 5 – Phaëthon, the Heliades, Cycnus

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One of the most dramatic and vivid myths, causing a ‘Great Fire’ which matches the Flood. Superb paintings from Rubens, Poussin, Moreau.

February 24, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

R as a platform for data conversion: JSON to Excel for log extracts

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How to import complete log extracts into Excel or Numbers, using R as a conversion platform. It’s a bit convoluted, but it works.

February 24, 2017 Macs, Technology

George Frederic Watts: influence and ideas 2

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After a brief marriage to actress Ellen Terry, his paintings became symbolist. He claimed to paint ideas rather than objects.

February 23, 2017 General, Painting

Apple pushes silent update to XProtect against Findzip or Filecoder.E

Apple has pushed out another update to the XProtect data for Sierra and El Capitan systems, early today. […]

February 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

So many times: the clocks in your Mac

Time should be universal, simple, and precise. Not in computers, though. Given enough clocks, it can behave oddly at times.

February 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

George Frederic Watts: influence and ideas 1

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Celebrating the bicentenary of this major and influential British painter and sculptor: a brief biography and selection of his paintings.

February 22, 2017 General, Painting

Using Consolation’s log extracts

Sierra’s new logs have new uses, such as collecting and analysing test and use data – only if you can import log extracts into a suitable app.

February 22, 2017 Macs, Technology

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